An American teacher of English says, "When you are sick, you don't feel like yourself." I've consulted several dictionaries, but I cannot find the phrase "feel like oneself." Is there really a phrase "not feel like oneself" in standard English?
A similar phrase "not feel oneself" means "to be feeling slightly sick."
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I feel as sick as a parrot. I feel under the weather I feel like going out 2nite. I do not feel very well.
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I feel as sick as a parrot.
I feel under the weather I feel like going out 2nite.
I do not feel very well.
We do not say anything even remotely resembling feel like myself well.
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I feel as sick as a parrot. I feel under the weather I feel like going out 2nite. I do not feel very well. We do not say anything even remotely resembling feel like myself well.
>I've consulted several dictionaries, but I cannot find the phrase
I don't think you performed a proper search.
Search at Yahoo with: "feel like oneself" dictionary (the quotation marks are important to group together the words of the idiom) and you will find appropriate dictionary pages describing the idiom, such as: